{"id":1412410,"date":"2022-03-31T09:29:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T13:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1412410"},"modified":"2022-03-31T09:29:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T13:29:39","slug":"we-asked-and-asked-and-begged-and-pleaded-parents-petition-triggers-judge-to-remove-5-dems-from-school-board-who-insisted-on-masking-schoolchildren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-asked-and-asked-and-begged-and-pleaded-parents-petition-triggers-judge-to-remove-5-dems-from-school-board-who-insisted-on-masking-schoolchildren\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We Asked And Asked And Begged And Pleaded\u2019: Parents\u2019 Petition Triggers Judge To Remove 5 Dems From School Board Who Insisted On Masking Schoolchildren"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">48<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwe-asked-and-asked-and-begged-and-pleaded-parents-petition-triggers-judge-to-remove-5-dems-from-school-board-who-insisted-on-masking-schoolchildren%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1412410&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1271687767.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Five members of a Pennsylvania school district\u2019s board were removed from their posts on Tuesday after a petition was filed by parents angry that the board required masking children at\u00a0the beginning of the school year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10670595\/Judge-FIRES-five-Democrat-members-PA-school-board-voted-make-face-masks-mandatory.html\">after<\/a> the Pennsylvania state of emergency ended in June and then kept the policy in place two months after the state\u2019s Supreme Court declared the mask mandate unconstitutional in December.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Judge William Mahon issued an order removing Sue Tiernan, Joyce Chester, Kate Shaw, Karen Herrmann, and Daryl Durnell because they had failed to respond to the February petition by March 22. Beth Ann Rosica, a West Chester parent who also serves as executive director of Back to School PA, filed the petition. She stated, \u201cI did not believe they had the legal authority to mask our children. I want to ensure they will never be forcibly masked again,\u201d referencing the district\u2019s health and safety plan that allows the reinstatement of the mask requirement if COVID-19 transmission rates increase, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/west-chester-school-board-members-removed-masking-petition-20220330.html#loaded\">The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce the Supreme Court declared that was unconstitutional we implored our school board, we asked and asked and begged and pleaded and made comments to lift the mask mandate, and they refused. When they refused, that is when we made the decision to file the petition,\u201d Rosica told <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/chester-county-judge-tosses-5-members-of-west-chester-school-board-over-masks\/\">WHYY<\/a> News.<\/p>\n<p>The petition was written by parent Shannon Grady. She stated, \u201cI started the research on this back in August, when I realized the schools were going to continue to mask children,\u201d adding that she found a \u201cloophole for removal of the school board\u201d in the Pennsylvania\u2019s Public School Code, which permits removal of board members \u201cfor failure to organize or neglect of duty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder the law, \u2018any ten resident taxpayers can file a petition with the Court of Common Pleas, and the court \u2018shall grant a rule upon the school directors, returnable in not less than ten or more than twenty days \u2026 to show cause why they should not be removed from office,\u201d The Philadelphia Inquirer noted, adding, \u201cIt also says board members \u2018shall have at least five days\u2019 notice of the granting of the rule.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The petition was served to board members Feb. 22; on March 15 Mahon ordered that a \u201crespondent shall file a verified answer to the petition within twenty days of service upon the respondent.\u201d By last week, the board members had not responded, prompting Rosica to notify the judge that the deadline 20 business days after February 22 was March 22.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday night, responding to the board members\u2019 removal, attorneys representing them filed a motion to reconsider, arguing the 20 days should have been dated back to March 15, from Mahon\u2019s order, and thus the deadline should be April 5. On Wednesday, Mahon issued an order scheduling a hearing on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday night, Superintendent Bob Sokolowski issued a statement saying that \u201cspecial counsel to the district is in the process of preparing a substantive response on behalf of those school board members named in the petition. \u2026 While we do not have all of the answers at this time, please be assured that the West Chester Area School District and I remain deeply committed to the mission of educating and inspiring the best in our students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same?\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>Become a member now and join our mission.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five members of a Pennsylvania school district\u2019s board were removed from their posts on Tuesday after a petition was filed by parents angry that the board required masking children at\u00a0the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}